Where are your limits?

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do. 
 (Charles M. Schwab)

In these days of war, fear, casualties and uncertainty, I am wondering again about all these things that we relate to when we hear the word "limits"- because we see that time and again we are up against our limits and find that- time and again- that there is no "scientific barometer" to the word "limit". 
If it is the soldier in the battlefield, the decision-maker behind the lines, the parents worried sick about the soldiers down below, the small children terrified from the rockets and sirens… limits are something that we find, like it or not,  and that we can and do go beyond.

A larger, more powerful perspective on limits are those that we put on ourselves, those that stop our activity (or stop our inaction), for whatever reason… in other words, when one learns what keeps us back one also learns, inherently, what can make us go---this is at the heart of the coaching model, one of the keys to its success and the reason why coaching can be there for anybody who is willing, ready and able to say- "I will re-define my limits".

Remember: limits are what you do with what you have. As such it is always with potential to be under construction and growth!